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El-Rufai receives 27 freed Kaduna college students, two missing Olalekan Adetayo  and Godwin Isenyo Published 6 May 2021 Olalekan Adetayo  and Godwin Isenyo Published 6 May 2021 Twenty-seven abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have been released by bandits. The Chairman of The Forum of the Abducted Parents,  Malam Abdullahi Usman confirmed it to our correspondent on the telephone on Wednesday. The elated chairman said, “Yes, they have been released after 50 days.” On March 11, 2021 bandits inva...

Chimezie Enyiocha   Updated April 30, 2021 Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, presides over a Security Council meeting at the Government House on April 30, 2021.   A total number of 323 people were killed by bandits in Kaduna State between January and March 2021, the government has said. The figure was contained in a security report presented by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna, Samuel Aruwan, at the State Security Council meeting. Governor Nasir El-Rufai presided over the meeting held on Friday at the Government House in Kaduna, the state capital. Prese...

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, has observed with dismay that there is a plot against the Agyap land and its people following the continuous detention of the 15 Atyap community leaders by the Kaduna State Police Command. SOKAPU, in a statement through its spokesman, Luka Binniyat, observed that since July last year, no less than 100 Atyap natives have been killed on their ancestral lands and at least 24 villages destroyed and hundreds of hectares of farmlands with growing crops grazed by cattle. SOKAPU lamented, “Not a single Fulani leader has been called for questioning not to t...

Police begin 2nd phase of NHIS enrolment of retirees in Kaduna On National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, The Police Command in Kaduna State on Wednesday said the second phase enrollment of police retirees into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) will begin on April 12. The Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, said this in a statement issued in Kaduna. The command spokesman said all retired police personnel in the state were expected to register. READ ALSO:  According to him, the exercise was to capture all retired officers and their spouses at no cost. “This wil...

ON THE GO Father of Afaka student dies two weeks after daughter’s kidnap Ibrahim Shamaki, the father of one of the students abducted by bandits in Afaka, Kaduna state, is dead.Advertisement TheCable gathered that Shamaki, whose daughter was among those kidnapped from Federal... Seven vehicles affected in yet another fire incident at Otedola Bridge There was an accident resulting in a fire outbreak at Otedola Bridge inwards Berger area on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the early hours of Saturday.Advertisement Emergency responders, including Lagos Fire... INTERVIEW: I chose...